A record spending spree by Premier League clubs in the summer transfer market passed more than €2.2 billion.
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A record spending spree by Premier League clubs in the summer transfer market passed more than €2 billion mark before the window closed Thursday with Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and - belatedly - Chelsea all signing players to conclude the reshaping of their squads.
The headline transfer on a typically frantic final day of trading was the arrival of Brazil winger Antony at United from Ajax for €94 million, making him the fourth expensive player in Premier League history and football's most expensive deadline-day signing.
That took United's total spend to about €240 million - a figure only topped in the whole of Europe by Chelsea, which finally signed an out-and-out striker in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona. In the club's first transfer window in the post-Roman Abramovich era, Chelsea spent a staggering €280 million.